Dreampop is a genre that often thrives on contradiction, the creative ebb and flow of opposites, which not only attract but also harmonize, meld, and merge to create something truly beautiful. At one end of the dream-pop spectrum, you find music woven of hushed atmospherics, barely existing soundscapes that hang in the air doing little more than coloring the sonic space. At the other end are songs forged of texture so thick they almost tip into shoegaze.
Somewhere between those extremes sits ‘Falling’, the latest release from Kallai, a song that not only neatly unites those opposites, but also, through the use of more solid structures, delicate yet discernible riffs, and driving bass and beats, tips things slightly towards the more tangible indie realms too.
But there’s also something, almost imperceptibly, unexpected at work here—a sudden frisson, a shard of skewed geometry slicing through the silken haze. It’s a neat sleight of hand, a reworking of the more familiar into something totally fresh, leaving the songs less predictable, more alive. That odd allure, that unwillingness to resolve too neatly, is precisely what gives this record its quietly disarming attraction.
Considering that the sentiment being captured in the music is those feelings when you realise that you are falling in love with someone, it is the perfect, self-fulfilling sonic prophecy, and soundtrack for a band who, over the course of just two singles, have made me fall for them, hook, line, and sinker.
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